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Why Even “Progressive” Dem Leaders won’t Stand up on Gaza: AIPAC’s Undue Influence
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Why Even “Progressive” Dem Leaders won’t Stand up on Gaza: AIPAC’s Undue Influence

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Why has the Democratic leadership shown such reluctance to take effective legislative action to halt the flow […]

Let them in: Opening Gaza to the foreign Press Corps

Let them in: Opening Gaza to the foreign Press Corps

09/01/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Gaza: Israel is killing far more Civilians than is typical for modern Wars

Gaza: Israel is killing far more Civilians than is typical for modern Wars

09/01/2025 By The Conversation

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Iceland: Pioneer in Green, Geothermal Energy

Iceland: Pioneer in Green, Geothermal Energy

Iceland gets 26% of its electricity from geothermal power, and is a pioneer in the industry, such that Kenyan and other scientists go there for […]

Juan Cole

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Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning (Democracy Now!)

Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! interviews the Iceland member of parliament, access to whose twitter account was summarily demanded by the US government because of her involvement in […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Ways Margaret Thatcher’s Policies Made our World more Unequal

Top Ten Ways Margaret Thatcher’s Policies Made our World more Unequal

The late Margaret Thatcher had an enormous impact on Britain and the world, but her legacy has been a more unequal, less prosperous Britain and […]

Juan Cole

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Deep Sanctions on Iran are Repeating the Deadly Mistakes of Iraq (Hindawi)

Deep Sanctions on Iran are Repeating the Deadly Mistakes of Iraq (Hindawi)

Coralie Pison Hindawi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion (a war unleashed […]

Juan Cole

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Ontario First Major Industrial Region to Abolish Dirty Coal Plants (Coal should be Illegal)

Ontario First Major Industrial Region to Abolish Dirty Coal Plants (Coal should be Illegal)

Coal plants are the world’s most abundant and most dangerous source of carbon dioxide emissions and the most important single driver of catastrophic climate change. […]

Juan Cole

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13-year-old Iranian Girl Sings Adele's 'Someone like You'

13-year-old Iranian Girl Sings Adele’s ‘Someone like You’

For a different view of Iranian youth than the images of anger and menace most often purveyed in US media (as Rami Khoury rightly argues): […]

Juan Cole

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Egypt: New Left and Coptic Christians Demand Toppling of Muslim Brotherhood Regime

Egypt: New Left and Coptic Christians Demand Toppling of Muslim Brotherhood Regime

A small crowd of some 500 marched in downtown Cairo on Saturday calling for the fall of the Muhammad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, regime. It was […]

Juan Cole

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Denmark 25% Wind-Powered, Going for 50% in 8 Years

Denmark 25% Wind-Powered, Going for 50% in 8 Years

Denmark gets 25% of its total electricity from wind turbines, and aims to double that by 2020. Part of its strategy is not just putting […]

Juan Cole

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How the US Pays off innocent Drone Victims (Currier)

How the US Pays off innocent Drone Victims (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica The U.S. drone war remains cloaked in secrecy, and as a result, questions swirl around it. Who exactly can be […]

Juan Cole

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